There's No Such Thing As Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

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Thanks in large part to the screen-heavy nature of today’s world, studies reveal both children and adults are spending less time connected to nature. The kindergarten now uses much more of the space around it and hasincorporated a kitchen garden area - with a planting boxes, anoutdoorkitchen, greenhouses etc. I always enjoy but also cringe when I seechildren playing out being theteacher with their peers and see them holding a book like I do or saying things they have heard me say (I hear the phrase 'Excuse me' a lot as I must say this as a way to s

Sensibly, Start recommends choosing a simple, easy place where you are safe, taking a companion, being warm before getting in, not staying in too long and warming up afterwards with clothing and hot drinks. This year our day is even less structured and all thestaff agree that is is a morepleasant day for allconcerned.It’s a very big part of our lives, to be able to see the greenery and the water and the forests,” adds Bo Wahlund, a packaging developer who organises the group. Running up hills in winter is a very different enterprise from doing it in summer, but Ruth Pickvance, former British fell champion and founder of Element Active, loves the cold season. Children are taught to make sure they can see an adultrather than the other wayround and this gives them a lotmorefreedom to explore but equally puts the onus on them rather than on the adult.

It prefers to loop, twist and curve, and often almost doubles back in its tracks, so that you may walk miles along its banks and find yourself after all not very far from where you started. But I think that the digital area can help us in many ways, it makes it easier to plan adventures for example with modern apps,” she says.Castle runs winter training courses in the Scottish Highlands, which, he says, “is a different beast from the Lakes or Snowdonia, where you can have summer conditions in winter. S., I found it hard to navigate all the different parenting styles, so falling back on my Scandinavian upbringing came naturally to me. Friluftsliv loosely translates to open-air life and can be explained as seeking oneness with nature in everyday life, without a particular agenda. We should all of us have a treasury of happy memories to sustain us when life is unbearably cruel, to brighten the gloom a little, to be stars shining through the darkness. Besides the obvious physical and mental benefits, I think having one foot firmly planted in the natural world can help guide us on our parenting journey.

So, here I am as a part-time amateur linguist with just one year self (and Youtube-) taught Norwegian under my belt and no Norwegian friends, wondering what our fellow German types from whatever country made of David’s gag… Nobody else here seemed to turn a hair at it! Any wetsuit, he says, will improve if you wear a rash vest underneath and if it has a built-in hood. And I’m not the only one who feels this way – James Warner Smith, editor at Cool Camping, said bookings were up 300% for October and that the trend would probably continue into November and December. Pickvance’s favourite locations outside Wales, which is currently in lockdown, are Shropshire’s Long Mynd and the Lakeland’s southern fells.These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body. What do you say to parents and caregivers who want to get outside with kids without it feeling forced? My favourite uphill song is "Volga Boatman," which suits my movements admirably: I find I can grind out a note with every step, and each verse earns a pause, a brief halt. If a child did hit another child or takesomething off them, theadult made a fuss of the 'wronged child' rather than admonishing the child who had been hitting or grabbing. The expression literally translates as “open-air living” and was popularised in the 1850s by the Norwegian playwright and poet, Henrik Ibsen, who used the term to describe the value of spending time in remote locations for spiritual and physical wellbeing.